No...Couchman had it right the first time.

"Don't forget me!"

I think they look pretty dumb. Not going to qualify that statement.

Is there any point to ruining a perfectly natural body? It is not an enhancement, it is a distortion.

I don't like how many people I see who do these things to their body are always trying to prove something to others. Always trying to act tough. Don't they realize I could throw a chain through those things and rip out their pride?

Tone of this thread "lol I'm better than people who modify their body"

I quite like the look of ear gauges on guys until it gets stupidly excessive. Never looks attractive on girls though. I don't mind smaller piercings, snake bites, bottom lip, etc on girls.

I'm of a similar opinion on tattoo's. Guys look ok provided they're large (e.g. 3/4 or full sleeve), a single small tattoo on a guys arm tends to look silly. Also, tattoo's on people who are flabby = always awful. Girls generally look awful with lots of tats. A few are ok.

Maybe you meant this comment to be in a thread about obesity, or extreme bodybuilding?



I think there have been generous examples here about an number of reasons people modify their bodies, and basically none of them have to do with proving a point. Most people (myself included) seem to get piercings A- Because it's meaningful to them, and/or B- because they enjoy how it looks (eg additional, wardrobe-independent jewelry).




Interesting. I think gauged ears on girls can look very attractive, but I am inexplicably turned off by any sort of mouth/lip piercings.

I haven't noticed much aesthetic division between guys with tattoos and girls with tattoos. There seems to be about an equal propensity for just choosing some flash on a whim, which tends to look stupid on anyone. However, tattoos on women can be super fetching in my books.

I think my view of it looking better on guys is that I don't find guys attractive so it's mostly aesthetic improvement. With girls, any modification is fighting against 2 million years of human evolution

How can you compare obesity to piercings? Most obese people would rather not be obese. Extreme bodybuilding also looks terrible, and is another extreme which I dislike. In short, I dislike anything that is intentionally disfigured. That being said, there is nothing wrong with being ripped, as long as it's natural and doesn't make you look like a freak.




Some people just didn't develop properly I guess.

Sorry, I'm not sure I get what you mean here.

He/she probably meant to quote the bit about evolution.

Is that the shade of bigotry I see skipping off in the distance?

Maybe it is. I just can't believe a normal person could do that to himself. It just seems so unreasonable, so unnecesary.

So by that logic you don't like oral sex then??

What he said.

Haha, yeah I just don't get the appeal???

Wow, that guy is never gonna get kissed. Not just because that looks damn ugly but it'd be a logistical nightmare.

Look! It's mr AssNose!

Another thing: Tanning

I don't get it. Why would someone want to purposely expose their body to dangerous radiation. Most people think it will enhance their appearance, but obviously this will only work for the very short run before the damage starts to show. I mean, sunburn is bad enough, thats a first degree burn. Why are people to cool to protect themselves from the Sun. Why. The Sun is dangerous.

I wonder what Aliens think about us:

"Look! More stupid humans are going into this "tanning salon" to purposely expose themselves to radiation!"
"Cancel the invasion! We will wait until they all die of cancer or ear infection!"

While this is sarcasm, it is still valid. The only thing I think is reasonable is excersise and a healthy diet. If you have some disorder that impedes you to look good regardless of these two elements, then that is different.

But other than that, its a waste of a good body.

You not telling us your gender is a waste of a good body.

Or something.

In my opinion, if you can't do 5 pullups you are wasting your naturally gifted body and I find you vile and disgusting. Sorry, but like Mark Rippetoe said, physical strength is the most important thing in life.

I don't think it's a waste of a good body if the owner of said body sees it as a good thing. You can think it's ridiculous if you want, but there are some of us that like piercings and tattoos - both on ourselves and others. Of course, this is coming from the guy who has 3 piercings in each ear (bottom holes at 6g), a pierced septum, and a tattoo.

Ok. So don't do it. Problem fixed, debate resolved. I'm actually a bit weirded out by how vehement of opinions there are against people doing it. I'd have expected that from my grandparents, not people within my (or younger even) cohorts.

...What ARE those things on his nose?

I take it she tries to kill captain america during the day.

im going to go out on a limb and say thats photoshopped.

Which one, mb? The guy or girl?

Hey, **** you man!

Seriously. Screw that guy. :/

In fact you should probably be able to do a roundhouse kick too.

You can't do at least 5 pullups?

I'm a scrawny ******* but I can at least do double figures.

Now there's an idea I can get behind! Wait. If your behind someone doing a roundhouse will you still get hit!?

mmm maybe, but i doubt it, the reactions of the guy are too consistent with his opinion of her skin tone

No, because a real roundhouse isn't the spinning one.

I just think its common sense to not go out and ruin yourself. I can't see how piercings, tattoos or tanning, or other extreme body modification activities are healthy or advancing oneself. People say the express something through those means. All I see is that they express how much they lack elsewhere.

Depends on your definition of "Ruin" and "Extreme". I don't think tattooing in and of itself is extreme, but rather the amounts you have and what they depict can certainly be. I'll go further by saying some people don't look right without them lol. Others, however shouldn't do these things...

These are easier than pop culture implies they are. If you can balance and pivot on one foot without falling or rupturing a tendon, and your other leg can extend without similar injuries, you can pull off a roundhouse kick.



I think it's common sense to use apostrophes in their appropriate settings. One person's standard of common sense is not necessarily a successful definition of the majority concept of common sense. There are people who consider it common sense to wear heavy clothing in extreme desert heat, and to a certain extent this is successful at perpetuating survival for those people. To another extent, it is successful at making them appear alien, goofy, frickin' nuts, and/or oppressive of females, according to the standards of other groups of people.
As for that last sentence... it smacks of a particularly ugly sense of superiority and entitlement which I find not less than disgusting. If you are going to judge the merits and social values of a stranger exclusively based on how he visually presents himself, when he is clearly doing you absolutely no harm (nor to anybody else), then the only significant difference between your judgments and racially-based judgments are the concession that people of a different race didn't choose to look the way they do, so they're okay.

In the event you didn't mean to sound so pathetically narrow-minded, presumptive, condescending, etc., please do forgive me for jumping down your throat over that post.
In the event you did mean it with complete sincerity and belief in your statements... then all I see in you is a thing to be quarantined and avoided, lest I catch its unfortunate and contagious ideology.


Before somebody decides to call my attention to it, yes, I know I use too many words.

I would agree it's common sense not to go and get what are termed "job killers": oversized plugs, Tattoos on hands/nuckles/face, visible subdermal implants, or whatever those things are called. But as for tattoos and piercings in general... They are so COMMON now that "common sense" should no longer have a negative slant on it. Now common sense should tell you to not judge based on sOmeones appearance alone.